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Credit: Sustainable Aero Lab/ZAL Center of Applied Aero Research
A new startup accelerator out of Hamburg, Germany is looking to develop technologies that will reduce the aviation industry’s impact on climate change. In partnership with the Hamburg Aviation cluster network and ZAL Center of Applied Aero Research, Sustainable Aero Lab will bring together relevant startups with investors, industry players and mentors from the aviation, green technology and finance industries.
The CEOs of Sustainable Aero Lab and ZAL noted during a virtual ZAL Innovation Talk on Feb. 3 that the accelerator is seeking both existing startups as well as ideas coming from universities that could potentially be used to make aviation more sustainable. Stephan Uhrenbacher, CEO of Sustainable Aero Lab, noted that he has already narrowed down a list of 100 potential startups to around 30 that the accelerator plans to approach. “We’re very strict, but we want to keep the funnel very open because we